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Speaker: Dr. Andrea Saltelli - Open Evidence Research, Open University of Catalonia
Abstract: We live in a world that is significantly structured by numbers, where they convey the truth and construct our reality. Statistical and mathematical models, metrical objects, artificial intelligence applied to big data, all promise a better way to manage the present and the future. This proliferation of numbers, both visible and invisible, increasingly permeate the real, expanding in scope and sophistication. Not so society's capacity to adapt, manage and, when necessary, oppose, harmful or undesired effects. Numbers are so deeply entrenched in our existence that we barely reflect on them critically anymore. An appeal to return to a society without numbers is unrealistic, but a defence against its excesses is necessary, and possible.
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Short bio: Andrea Saltelli has worked on physical chemistry, environmental sciences, applied statistics, impact assessment and science for policy. His main disciplinary focus is on sensitivity analysis of model output, a discipline where statistical tools are used to interpret the output from mathematical or computational models, and on sensitivity auditing, an extension of sensitivity analysis to the entire evidence-generating process in a policy context.He has worked at the European Commission, leading between 2005 and 2015 a unit of econometrics and applied statistics. From November 2016 till June 2020 adjunct professor at the Centre for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities (SVT) - University of Bergen (UIB). He is presently at Open Evidence Research, Open University of Catalonia. His most recent papers have tackled sensitivity analysis and auditing, the ecological footprint, the future of statistics, the rational of evidence-based policy, the crisis of science and the post-truth discussion. Andrea gives courses in sensitivity analysis, sensitivity auditing and ethics of quantification.
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